The golden sky above Supreme Sword Mountain blazed like high noon as three figures rose straight through the clouds toward the open chest of the immobilized five-thousand-foot giant.
In the center flew eleven-year-old Gu Nian.
His bright yellow bunny apron flapped crisply against his chest in the mountain wind, and the six glossy Little Red Flower stickers pinned over his heart gleamed like six tiny red stars.
Half a step to his left glided his mother, Empress Luo Qingxue, her snow-white phoenix robes trailing ribbons of pure, absolute-zero starlight.
Half a step to his right rose his father, Gu Changsheng, his rolled-up sleeves and dark blue kitchen apron anchored by the immense, quiet majesty of the entire living planet rotating behind his shoulders.
High above, pinned helplessly inside three-year-old Little Fifth’s two-thousand-foot silver dragon bear hug. With his six mechanical arms severed by Ye Xiao, his hull armor melted into pink strawberry taffy by Su Nuannuan, and his reactor sucked bone-dry by Jiang Tuntun. Toothless Envoy Xue Sha could only watch in bulging-eyed terror as the trio closed the distance!
Sensing lethal danger approaching at thirty times the speed of sound, the hexagonal [Blood-Slaughter System Core] welded to Xue Sha’s sternum flashed frantic crimson warning runes across its twenty-yard Upper-Realm Plot-Armor Barrier:.
